I had a game last night where A quarterback was running around the backfield for a good 20 seconds. After about 5 seconds I hear B's coach screaming something (they were already up by 3 TDs in the 4th), he was screaming that the QB didn't have his mouthpiece in, and he addemently wanted a penalty. So I looked toward the now runner and saw that sure enough his Mouthpiece was dangling. We didn't throw a flag because I thought that since we didn't know that he started the play w/o a MP that we had to assume that it was knocked out during the normal course of play. I tried to explain to the coach from accross the field (I was U) but he kept on whining, so I finally just yelled to him "stop talking" and put my index finger to my mouth.
Is this explanation right or should I have thrown some type of flag? Ideas!?
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